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Monday, September 23, 2013

The Democratic Alternative

A systematic effort is being made by politicians of the old
Democratic school, to create such a feeling in favor of Gen. McClellan, that he
can be taken up and run for the next Presidency, on the ground of distinguished
services performed for his country.The
cue has been given to the press, and every little pro-slavery sheet at the
North – and we presume at the South, so far as they dare give utterance to
sentiments laudatory of a Northern commander – is engaged in trumpeting the
fame of Gen. McClellan and investing with sublime importance every act he
commits.Further than that, the plans of
those his superior in command, where meritorious, are claimed for him, and full
credit is given him for their execution.Now, we would not detract one iota from the justly merited fame of Gen.
McClellan, but the effort to hoist him before the public as the military man of
the age, skilled in all the elements of Generalship, for a sinister object, is so transparent as to be exceedingly repulsive
to any one who regards the suppression of the rebellion at the present juncture
of paramount importance to plotting for the next Presidency.

The demagogues of the defunct Democratic party have never been
in quite so much of a quandary as the present time.Unless that political organization be
resurrected, to them “Othello’s occupation is gone,” and they must turn their
peculiar talents into less congenial channels.The efforts of Vallandigham et al.
to reconstruct the party is a failure, so as a last resort they have issued
their edict to ‘Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart,’ and curs of low degree, to bark
in unison over the prowess of Gen. McClellan, that the honor and glory of war
be detached from President Lincoln and wreathe the brow of the young commander
on the Potomac.

‘On to Richmond’ is now the cry in good faith, and since the
noble Generals and brave men of the West, who have done nearly all the hard
fighting, have paved the way for the flower of the American army to advance,
there will be little difficulty in reaching the whilom capital of the old
Dominion and the new Confederacy.